Bøger af Joseph Berk

In his latest book, author and educator Joseph Berk explores the best techniques for stimulating creative thinking, creating new products, improving existing products, and solving design challenges. Surprisingly, even those of us who are paid to be creative often need help. Most of us lose much of our natural creativity by the time we finish high school, but we can regain it through the techniques included in Unleashing Engineering Creativity. This is exciting and fun material, and Unleashing Engineering Creativity presents it in an interesting and engaging manner. Many organizations and engineers rely on brainstorming as their primary creative and inventive tool, but this simplistic approach often fails to stimulate creativity in a meaningful way. Unleashing Engineering Creativity goes far beyond brainstorming. This book explores powerful new creativity stimulation approaches and provides recommendations for overcoming self-imposed obstacles. The title says it all. If you want to unleash your engineering creativity, this book will help you and your organization attain significant creativity improvements.

This is a reprint of The Complete Book of Police and Military Motorcycles originally published in 2001. From Pittsburgh's adoption of motorcycles for police use in 1909 to General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing's motorized pursuit of Pancho Villa into Mexican territory in 1916 to the deployment of motorcycles in both world wars, this book tells the fascinating tale of these magnificent machines from their 20th century beginnings to their current use by police departments and militaries throughout the world.Joseph Berk explores the history of their manufacture by Harley-Davidson, Kawasaki, BMW, and others, from marketing strategy to product evolution. In addition, he gives the reader an exclusive inside look at how specific police departments from Atlanta to Los Angeles determine which make and model to adopt, complete with critiques of the "Big Three" police models used in the United States from officerswho have put them to the test. Berk's detailed look at the intensive 10-day training program LAPD motor officers undergo is a testament to the carefully honed, specialized skills motor officers bring to their work, and lively discussions with individual officers about how they put their machines to work on the streets on a day-to-day basis offer a unique personalized perspective. Completing the picture, Berk examines the use of motorcycles in combat, detailing the specific makes and models used by Special Forces and other military units from World War I through the turn of the century and beyond.

Are you a behind-schedule manufacturer? Are you tired of the empty (and expensive) promises from the software and consulting companies? Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement cuts through all the three-letter acronyms and phony fads to get to the heart of what it takes to deliver manufactured products on schedule. Written by a manufacturing manager with hands-on, real-world experience in turning around delinquent manufacturing organizations, this book focuses on seven critical factors for recovering and staying on schedule. There's no baloney here. It's the real deal written by someone who has been there. If you want to get and stay on schedule, Manufacturing Delivery Performance Improvement is a "must read" book!

Provides a toolbox of solutions to quality and management problems for every engineer, manager and even student looking for those answers for the medium to high-technology sector manufacturing company. This book includes the major topics in quality as well as case studies from relevant real-world situations.

* Includes easy-to-understand and easy-to-implement costreduction concepts organized into five general areas (labour,material, design, process, and overhead), with several chapters ineach. * Each chapter gets to the point without a lot of extraneousdata, providing proven tactics for cutting costs.